The first signs of blood cancer include.
Fever or chills.
Persistent fatigue, weakness.
Frequent or severe infections.
Losing weight without trying.
Swollen lymph nodes, enlarged liver or spleen.
Easy bleeding or bruising.
Recurrent nosebleeds.
Tiny red spots in your skin (petechiae)
There are 3 types of blood cancer which include Leukemia, myeloma and lymphoma.
Treatment will depend on the type of blood cancer you have, your age, how fast the cancer is progressing, and whether the cancer has spread to other parts of your body.
Because treatments for blood cancer have vastly improved over the last several decades, many types of blood cancers are now highly treatable.
Leukemia is cancer of blood-forming tissues, including bone marrow.
Many types exist such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Many patients with slow-growing types of leukemias don't have symptoms.
Rapidly growing types of leukemia may cause symptoms that include fatigue, weight loss, frequent infections, and easy bleeding or bruising.
Bone marrow disease can usually be cured if caught soon enough.
If you have bone marrow disease the bone marrow disease can typically be cured by having a bone marrow transplant which replaces the damaged bone marrow cells.
The life expectancy of a person after a bone marrow transplant is between 5 to 15 years and sometimes longer as long as the bone marrow transplant takes.
Most bone marrow transplants take just fine and then the person is cured and lives a normal life expectancy.
My Grandmother had a bone marrow transplant and lived 30 years after the bone marrow transplant.
Your age and current health can factor into the life expectancy after the bone marrow transplant.
A bone marrow transplant is painless as you'll be given anesthesia when you have the bone marrow transplant done.
You may be awake during the bone marrow transplant but you won't feel a thing during the procedure.
Stem cells for bone marrow transplants are infused into your body through a central line and it's painless.
Even donating bone marrow is painless as well.
Donating or giving bone marrow is not really dangerous and is relatively safe for the bone marrow donator.
The only real risk with donating bone marrow is the use of anesthesia and it's effects on some people but even that is pretty safe.
Most bone marrow surgeries to donate bone marrow go through without any problems.
But you might feel sore for a few days where the bone marrow was removed from.
Donating bone marrow does not shorten your life.
When you donate bone marrow the bone marrow that was removed from you for donation will eventually grow back on it's own.
So you will get the bone marrow back naturally when you donate your bone marrow.
So you'll still have new bone marrow growing in place of the old donated bone marrow.
It's a myth that your life will be shorted when donating bone marrow.
Many people who donate bone marrow go on to live a normal life expectancy.
It's worth it to donate bone marrow to save lives.